Jess Walter Quotes

Sometimes, now, when she sees how content Pat and Lydia are, she feels like a spent salmon: her work here is done. But other times, honestly, the whole idea of being at peace just pisses her off. At p...

We want what we want—we love who we love.

About Author

Jess Walter (born July 20, 1965) is an American author of seven novels, two collections of short stories, and a non-fiction book. He is the recipient of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2006.

We live in a world of banal miracles.

The eye sees everything upside down, the artist explained, and then the brain automatically reverses it. I’m just trying to put it back the way the mind sees it. Alvis

The movie I was working on, Cleopatra, it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.

The whole world is sick...we've all got this pathetic need to be seen. We're a bunch of fucking toddlers trying to get attention.

You had to write it, and he had to play it, and I'm just so grateful I got to see it.

All art is personal. Otherwise, what's the point?

All we have is the story we tell.

And Pasquale forced himself to look away from her then. It was like prying a magnet off steel, but he did it: he turned forward in the boat, closed his eyes, still seeing her standing there in his mem...

And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you s...

Be confident and the world responds to your confidence, rewards your faith.

But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do you know what I mean, Pasquale?

But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do

Everyone sees the same movie, but every reader experiences a different book, because reading involves you in hours of active, creative work, the characters, their movements and thoughts re-created in...

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about. Please, Pasquale rasped to Tommaso. Go. The

I think so, too. I know I felt that way. For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at th...

It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life...

On the street they moved with purpose, at different speeds but in straight lines, like a thousand bullets fired at a thousand different angles from a thousand different guns. All of these people movin...

Os hospitais tentam vender centros de parto, os infantários vendem amor, as escolas vendem sucesso... os vendedores de carros promovem o luxo, os conselheiros a autoestima, as massagistas oferecem fin...